Damps Quotes

#1. The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

Walter Savage Landor

#2. Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?

Mary Shelley

#3. Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#4. We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

#5. Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son.

Noel Coward

#6. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#7. I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe

#8. Miss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by people she liked,and if revolutions, somehow, didn't always have to begin with one's self
with internal convulsions,sacrifices,executions.

Henry James

#9. Those who suffer much, have much to say.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. There's no "I" in team, but there is an M.E.

M.E. Brines

#11. People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Marian Wright Edelman

#12. When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.

Georgina Chapman

#13. The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Edwin Louis Cole

#14. I guess it's about trust. Trusting what you feel. Trusting the person who inspired those feelings with the weight of them and all they could mean.

Donna Kauffman

#15. Pollux turns out to be worth ten Holos.

Suzanne Collins

#16. The Bhagavad Gita
that ancient Indian Yogic text
says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

David Wenham